Green Options » utah lease auction http://greenoptions.com/tag/utah-lease-auction Posts tagged 'utah lease auction' Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:16:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Activist Bidder Disrupts Federal Lease Auction for Oil and Gas Development http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/22/activist-bidder-disrupts-federal-lease-auction-for-oil-and-gas-development/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/22/activist-bidder-disrupts-federal-lease-auction-for-oil-and-gas-development/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:16:32 +0000 Tom Schueneman http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/22/activist-bidder-disrupts-federal-lease-auction-for-oil-and-gas-development/ Canyonlands National Park would be adversely effected by the proposed BLM sale of federal leases for oil and gas exploration

An environmental activist threw “into chaos” the Bureau of Land Management auction of leases on federal lands for oil and gas development recently approved by outgoing president George Bush. The sale has been characterized by the Natural Resources Defense Council as a “Midnight Land Sale” of 110,000 acres near Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Dinosaur National Monument, and Nine Mile Canyon. The auction on Friday was disrupted by a bidder who “tainted the entire auction” by bidding the price up on several parcels of land by hundreds of thousand of dollars with no real intention of paying for the bids.

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